{"id":109056,"date":"2026-05-21T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=109056"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:45:27","slug":"uri-arts-and-sciences-fellow-to-enhance-new-england-colonial-history-through-graphic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/uri-arts-and-sciences-fellow-to-enhance-new-england-colonial-history-through-graphic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Arts and Sciences fellow to enhance New England colonial history through graphic design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 22, 2026 \u2013 It\u2019s not just digitally enhancing a hidden New England colonial-era endangered landmark that has Deleonya Brown excited about being a 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts and Sciences fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wants to learn more about herself, both personally and professionally. That opportunity will come as the result of her working with the Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum in Stonington, Connecticut, to build the nonprofit\u2019s brand identity through graphic design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The College of Arts and Sciences Fellows Program<\/a> offers 溏心vlog免费B站 Arts and Sciences undergraduates paid 10-week summer fellowships to participate in research, scholarly, or creative projects under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Fellows may also receive credit for a directed study.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown will play a key role in reshaping the branding for the Stanton-Davis Museum\u2014the oldest working farm in Connecticut\u2014to help detail its importance to New England\u2019s colonial history. Brown will redevelop the Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum\u2019s website and visual branding, build its Instagram presence, and create designs for the nonprofit\u2019s letterhead and business cards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work will include creating collateral materials for the museum, such as flyers, posters and brochures. 溏心vlog免费B站 Associate Teaching Professor, Design Studio and User Interface Design Certificate Director Clarisa Carubin<\/a>, who taught Brown in her Graphic Design I and II classes, will mentor Brown on this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis little museum has so much history, so much background and has something that hits close to home for me,\u201d said Brown, a senior from Pawtucket<\/strong> who will graduate in December with an art degree. \u201cI just love this opportunity because I’m able to perform real-life work and engage with a nonprofit that is trying to keep its historical importance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, who is building her design portfolio and is seeking freelance work upon graduation from 溏心vlog免费B站, credits Carubin\u2019s teaching of foundational aspects of design software for putting her in the mindset that design work is always subjective. \u201cI really learned in her classes how to take critiques seriously,\u201d Brown said. \u201cOnce you receive the critiques, there\u2019s room to understand how I can do my work better and how to reach a target audience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historical preservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Stanton, who co-founded the town of Stonington, settled in southeastern Connecticut in 1651 and subsequently built the homestead after he was granted permission to establish a trading post along the Pawcatuck River. Stanton was notable for supporting the fair treatment of the Native Americans, being appointed as counselor for the Pequot and Mohegan tribes at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Davis, of Long Island, New York, bought the property in 1772 after the Stanton family lost the home due to unpaid debt. It remained in the Davis family until the late John \u201cWhit\u201d Davis donated the homestead for preservation before his death in 2016. The homestead is undergoing extensive renovations to conserve both the home and its colonial artifacts for future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The homestead was also the home of Venture Smith, who was enslaved there by the Stantons and eventually bought his freedom in 1765. Smith\u2019s autobiography, \u201cA Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself,\u201d is one of the earliest known works documenting slavery in colonial America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown said she is looking forward to sharing Smith\u2019s inspiring story of becoming free in the United States and seeking a better life, as well as shining a new spotlight on multicultural history within colonial New England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m African American, and this project will help me learn more about myself because there’s so much history about African Americans that has not been talked about,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThe homestead is small, but it has so much history. That\u2019s why graphic design is so important for something like this\u2014to help bring something to light that no one had expected or initially thought of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 22, 2026 \u2013 It\u2019s not just digitally enhancing a hidden New England colonial-era endangered landmark that has Deleonya Brown excited about being a 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts and Sciences fellow. She wants to learn more about herself, both personally and professionally. That opportunity will come as the result […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":109057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,1905,1902],"class_list":["post-109056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-research","tag-student-engagement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109058,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109056\/revisions\/109058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}